FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.—Jury selection in the deadliest U.S. mass shooting ever to go to trial began Monday with preliminary screening for the panel that will determine whether Nikolas Cruz will be put to death for murdering 17 students and staff members at a Parkland, Florida, high school. Eighteen members of the first panel of 60 prospective…

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.—The first day of jury selection in the Parkland mass shooting trial was slow, methodical, and painstaking—a process that is expected to drag on for two months. More than 120 of the first 160 prospective jurors who filed through Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer’s courtroom on Monday were dismissed. Most said it would be…